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BADco. and steirischer herbst festival invite you to a discussion in

the framework of "

Truth is concrete" -

 

a 24/7 marathon camp on artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art

*Commoning the space* - Interventions, interpellations, strategies

26.09.2012 11:00-13:00 @ White Box, Opernring 7, Graz, Austria

Hosted by BADco.'s Goran Sergej Pristas (HR) & Tomislav Medak (HR)

With: Vjekoslav Gasparovic / pulska grupa (HR), Ana Dzokic & Marc

Neelen / STEALTH.unlimited (NL/SRB), Slaven Tolj (HR)

Recently, space - in its various concretions and manifestations - has become the fulcrum of social contestation: occupations of squares, streets, campuses. Encampments against gentrifications,

privatisations, commodifications. Test sites for new social

compositions, new forms of solidarity, new political openings. The

space is both the metonymy and the actual site where the processes of

capitalist capture of collective means of existence and secondary

exploitation of intense sociality materialise.

"Commoning the Space" presents and debates the strategies that the

cultural activists - artists, cultural workers, architects, students,

etc. - are employing to make those processes manifest, to bring the

spaces of antagonism to public attention and to mobilise a public

around them.

Starting from the experiences of struggle for the common, the

contributors will discuss ways to create a space in common,

interpellate a public around it, sustain new forms of social

organisation that come to inhabit it, scale and explode its

transformative momentum beyond its here and now.

More about "Truth is concrete":

http://truthisconcrete.org

More about steirischer herbst festival:

http://www.steirischerherbst.at

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Ars Electronica announced the festival for next september with a very interesting and provocative formulation: A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property. The age of copyright and intellectual property has reached its expiration date. A development that already manifested itself in the technical fundamentals of the Internet has reared its head in the actual practices of a young generation of users and is bringing forth a new economy of sharing and open access. With this provocative formulation, Ars Electronica is placing one of the core issues of modern knowledge-based society at the focal point of this year's festival program. What’s at stake: the value of intellectual property, freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society that seeks to build its new economy on the basis of creativity and innovation. The crux of the matter is that we still lack practical, workable rules and regulations governing this new reality and—of no small importance—that the task of coming up with them ought not to be left up to lawyers and MBAs alone. After all, regardless of the perspective from which one approaches this issue—that of the Internet pirates, the inventors of a new information commons, the pioneers of a sharing economy or the apologists of the creative industries—one thing remains true: if knowledge and content actually are to be the new capital of postindustrial society, then they have to circulate and be accessible by all.
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